[164] Dronke, Codex Fuldensis, No. 84.
[165] Ibidem, No. 88.
[166] Ibidem, No. 163.
[167] Codex Laureshamensis, No. 105. Cf. Zeuss, No. 26, where an owner sells an estate with twenty-two slaves, whose names he gives.
[168] Codex Laureshamensis, No. 33.
[169] Ibidem, No. 37.
[170] Ibidem, No. 83.
[171] Thus in the villa Frankenheim there is a curtile dominicatum, Zeuss, Traditiones Wissemb., No. 127; in the villa Cazfeldes a terra indominicata, ibid., No. 3; in the villa Oterefheim a curtile indominicatum, ibid., No. 19; in the villa or marca Bruningsdorf, a curtis indominicata, comprising houses, stables and barns, and having attached to it about 100 acres in meadows, fields, vineyards, and woods, ibidem, No. 25.
[172] The dominicum is mentioned in the laws of the Alamanni, 22: “servi faciant tres dies sibi et tres in dominico;” and in the law of the Bavarians, 1, 14: “servus tres dies in hebdomada in dominico operetur, tres vero sibi faciat.” It is generally known that it was the almost universal practice for the dominicum to be tilled and reaped by the tenants.
[173] Maurer, Einleitung, p. 138. Lex Burgundionum, xlix. 3: “Quod prius statutum est, universitatem convenit observare.” Cf. the frequent phrase: “noverit universitas fidelium nostrorum.”